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Ruminations on Reinventing an R&D Capacity for Educational Improvement

In this 2008 essay Carnegie President (Emeritus) Anthony S. Bryk and Louis Gomez argue that educational research and development (R&D) infrastructure fails to connect to enduring problems of improvement in the nation’s schools and colleges. They propose a more problem-centered approach that brings together research, practice, and commercial expertise in design and development cycles. 

This paper was drawn from a presentation given by Bryk at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research on Oct. 25, 2007

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